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Word: dive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bits, Two-Time. In Medford, Ore., Two-Bits, a terrier who survived a dive down an 800-foot cliff into a snow bank, did it all over again on a snowless day, recovered, got sent to a farm to have a little sense trained into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...Ralph Stein, "it's a Cinch, Private Finch!" A "Yank" writer and artist combined on this easy- to-read easy-to-laugh-at review of Army indoctrination both as a refresher for those who have run the gauntlet of basic training and as a forecast for those about to dive...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: "IT'S A CINCH, PRIVATE FINCH," IS CREATION OF EX-ADVOCATE MAN | 3/25/1943 | See Source »

...backstroke saw Princeton's Tom Shand loaf his way to victory, without competition, in the strictly mediocre time of 1:39.1. Princeton also won a victory with Doran in the high board dive, and its 400 yard free style relay team nipped Rutgers. Representing Harvard, John Watkins, Ossie Morton. Barnes and Eusden qualified for the final only because Amherst's team disqualified by missing a turn, turned in a better performance with the chips down, to place third behind the two New Jersey colleges...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Rutgers and Princeton Dominate Eastern Swimming Tournament | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...Yale been present, it is safe to speculate that only two or three of the results would have remained the same. Yale's best time in every event except the 440, the individual medley (performed only in championships), the breast stroke, and, of course, the dive, were better than those turned in by the Eastern champions. It was like playing Follow the Leader without the leader...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Rutgers and Princeton Dominate Eastern Swimming Tournament | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...Meter Dive...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Rutgers and Princeton Dominate Eastern Swimming Tournament | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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